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List of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign people
This is an incomplete list of notable people associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States of America . Bill Gates noted in a February 2004 speech that Microsoft hires more alumni of the university than from any other university in the world [1] . Notable people associated with the U of I have founded Oracle Corporation , Playboy , Netscape , PayPal , YouTube , AMD , and Siebel Systems . Notable people have invented the LED , integrated circuit , transistor , MRI , and the plasma screen .
Notable alumni Not all listed alumni graduated from the University, and are so noted if the information is known.
Nobel Prize winners
Edward Doisy , B.S. 1914, M.S. 1916 — Physiology or Medicine , 1943Vincent Du Vigneaud , B.S. 1923, M.S. 1924 — Chemistry , 1955; also served as faculty memberRobert W. Holley , B.A. 1942 — Physiology or Medicine , 1968Jack Kilby , B.S. 1947 — Physics , 2000; inventor of the integrated circuit Edwin G. Krebs , B.A. 1940 — Physiology or Medicine , 1992Polykarp Kusch , M.S. 1933, Ph.D. 1936 — Physics , 1955John Schrieffer , M.S. 1954, Ph.D. 1957 — Physics , 1972; also served as faculty memberPhillip Sharp , Ph.D. 1969 — Chemistry , 1993Wendell Stanley , M.S. 1927, PhD. 1929 — Chemistry 1946Rosalyn Yalow , M.S. 1942, Ph.D. 1945 — Physiology or Medicine , 1977
Pulitzer Prize winners
Barry Bearak , M.S. 1974 — International Reporting , 2002Michael Colgrass , B.A. 1956 — Music , 1978George Crumb , M.A. 1952 — Music , 1968Carl Van Doren , B.A. 1907 — Biography , 1939Mark Van Doren , B.A. 1914 — Poetry , 1940Roger Ebert , B.S. 1964 — Criticism , 1975David Herbert Donald , M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1946 — Biography , 1961 and 1988Paul Ingrassia , B.S. 1972 — Beat Reporting , 1993Allan Nevins , B.A. 1912, M.A. 1913 — Biography , 1933 and 1937James Reston , B.S. 1932 — National Reporting , 1945 and 1957Robert Lewis Taylor , B.A. 1933 — Fiction , 1959George F. Will , B.A. 1933 — Comentary , 1977
Academia
College presidents and vice-presidents
John L. Anderson M.S., Ph.D. — Eighth President, Illinois Institute of Technology , Former Provost Case Western Reserve University Robert M. Berdahl M.A.— Current President of American Association of Universities , Former Chancellor of UC Berkeley , Former President of University of Texas at Austin Alvin Bowman Ph.D. - President, Illinois State University Tom Buchanan Ph.D., Twenty-third President University of Wyoming David L. Chicoine Ph.D. - President, South Dakota State University Lewis Collens B.S., M.A. — Seventh President, Illinois Institute of Technology Ralph J. Cicerone M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1970 — President, National Academy of Sciences , Former Chancellor UC Irvine Lois B. DeFleur Ph.D. — President, Binghamton University , Former Provost University of Missouri Tori Haring-Smith Ph.D - President, Washington & Jefferson College Freeman A. Hrabowski III M.A., Ph.D. - President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Philip Handler Ph.D. 1939 — President, National Academy of Sciences Robert W. Kustra Ph.D. - President, Boise State University John Niland Ph.D. 1970 - Fourth President, University of New South Wales , Australia J. Wayne Reitz M.S. 1935 — President, University of Florida Steven B. Sample B.S. 1962, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1965 — Tenth President, University of Southern California Michael Schwartz B.S. 1958, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962 - President Cleveland State University James J. Stukel M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1968 — Fifteenth President, University of Illinois David J. Schmidly Ph.D., - Twentieth President University of New Mexico William D. Underwood J.D. - Eighteen President, Mercer University Marvin Wachman Ph.D. - President, Temple University , Former President Lincoln University Herman B Wells - President, Indiana University
College provosts and vice provosts
Distinguished professors and scholars
Performing arts
Barbara Bain , B.S. — Winner of three consecutive Emmy Awards for the role of Cinnamon Carter in Mission: Impossible Nancy Lee Grahn , briefly attended. Daytime Emmy -winning actressGene Hackman — ActorArte Johnson , 1949 — Laugh-In Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , 1980 — ActressAng Lee , 1980 — Academy Award -winning movie director (Best Director, 2005, Brokeback Mountain )Donna Mills , — Movie and TV actressJerry Orbach , B.A. — Broadway actor, actor in Dirty Dancing Lennie Briscoe in Law & Order Peter Palmer — Actor/singer; played "Li'l Abner " on Broadway and film Larry Parks — Academy-Award -nominated actor; blacklisted in Hollywood after testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee Andy Richter , briefly attended — Actor and former Conan O'Brien sidekickAlan Ruck — Actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off Star Trek Generations Spin City Lynne Thigpen , B.A. 1970 — 1997 Tony Award -winning actress (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
Architecture
Art
Astronauts
Business
Jim Cantalupo , 1966 — Chairman and CEO of McDonald's (1991-2004)Jerry Colangelo , B.S. 1962 — President & CEO of Phoenix Suns and managing general partner of Arizona Diamondbacks Jon Corzine , A.B. 1969 — Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs (1994-1999), cross listed in Politics section Stephen Carley , A.B. circa El Pollo Loco [1] Universal City Hollywood [1] Martin Eberhard , 1960 - CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors George M.C. Fisher , 1962 — CEO of Eastman Kodak John Georges , 1951 — CEO of International Paper Robert L. Johnson , — Founder of Black Entertainment Television ; principal owner of the Charlotte Bobcats Michael P. Krasny , B.S. 1975 — Chairman Emeritus and founder of CDW Tom Murphy , B.S. 1938 — Chairman of General Motors Ron Popeil , 1957 — Inventor of the Infomercial (left after one year)Abe Saperstein , — Creator of the Harlem Globetrotters Jack Welch , M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 — CEO of General Electric (1981-2001)C. E. Woolman , 1912 — Founder of Delta Air Lines John D. Zeglis , B.S. 1969 — Former President of AT&T ; Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless
Engineering and technology
Panorama of the Bardeen Quad
Shoaib Abbasi , B.S. 1980, M.S. 1980 — President and CEO of Informatica Richard Blahut Marc Andreessen , B.S. 1993 — Co-creator of Mosaic , and later co-founder of Netscape Bruce Artwick , M.S. 1976 — Creator of Microsoft Flight Simulator Anna Patterson , Ph.D. 1998 — Creator of the search engine Cuil Ken Batcher , Ph.D. 1969 - ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award winner for work on parallel computersArnold O. Beckman , B.S. 1922, MS 1923 — Inventor of pH meter, founder of Beckman Instruments ; major donor to U of I, the Beckman Institute and Beckman Quadrangle are named after himEric Bina , B.S. 1986, M.S. 1988 — Co-creator of the Mosaic and among the first employees of Netscape Donald L. Bitzer B.S. 1955, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1960 [2] Emmy Award in Technical Achievement for the invention of the plasma display Ed Boon , B.S. 1986 — Creator of the Mortal Kombat video game seriesSteve Chen — Co-founder of YouTube Ven Te Chow , Ph.D. notable professor of hydrology John Cioffi B.S. 1978, father of DSL (broad band internet connection), Marconi Prize winner[3] Texas Instruments ), IEEE Fellow Dan Dobberpuhl B.S. 1967[4] semiconductor compiany P.A. Semi (acquired by Apple Inc. for $278 million [5] Steve Dorner , B.S. 1983 — Creator of Eudora Alan M. Davis , M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1975 — IEEE Fellow for contributions to software engineering, author, entrepreneurJames DeLaurier , B.S. - designed the first microwave -powered aircraft, the first engine-powered ornithopter, and the first human-carrying ornithopter Russell Dupuis B.S. 1970, M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 - professor at Georgia Tech , co-recipient of the 2002 National Medal of Technology , awarded the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal , pioneer in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and the commercialization of LEDs Lawrence Ellison — founder of Oracle Corporation (left after sophomore year)Michael Hart , B.A. 1973 — Founder of Project Gutenberg Tomlinson Holman , B.S. 1968 — creator of THX , professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts Jawed Karim , B.S. 2004 — Co-founder of YouTube Fazlur Khan , Ph.D. 1955 — Designer and builder of the Sears Tower , tallest building in the world when it was built in 1973Ed Krol - author of Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog Max Levchin , B.S. 1997 — Co-founder of PayPal Robert McCool , B.S. 1995 - author of the original NCSA HTTPd web server, later known as the Apache HTTP Server .Bob Miner , B.A. (mathematics) 1963 — Co-founder of Oracle Corporation Ray Ozzie , B.S. 1979 — Creator of Lotus Notes cofounder of Lotus, co-President of MicrosoftCecil Peabody , writer, graduate of MIT (1877) and professor at MIT Jerry Sanders , B.S. 1958 — Co-founder and former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Thomas Siebel , B.A. 1975, M.B.A. 1983, M.S. 1985 — Founder of Siebel Systems H. Gene Slottow , Ph.D. 1964[6] Emmy Award in Technical Achievement for the invention of the plasma display Bill Stumpf — Designer of the Aeron and Ergon ergonomic chairsKevin Warwick , Senior Beckman Fellow, 2004 - Cyborg Scientist, University of Reading .
Literature
Nelson Algren , B.S. 1931 — Author of 1950 National Book Award -winning The Man With the Golden Arm Ann Bannon , B.A. 1955 - Pulp fiction author of "The Beebo Brinker Chronicles"Dee Brown , M.S. 1951 — Author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee John F. Callahan , M.A., Ph.D. — literary executor for Ralph Ellison Iris Chang , B.A. 1989 — Author of The Rape of Nanking Dave Eggers , attended 1980s and 90s, B.S. 2002 — Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Stanley Elkin , B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1961 — National Book Critics Circle Award winner for George Mills in 1982 and for Mrs. Ted Bliss in 1995Lee Falk , 1932 — Creator of The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician Irene Hunt , B.A. 1939 — Newbery Medal winning author of Up a Road Slowly Richard Powers , M.A. 1979 — Novelist and writer
Journalism and non-fiction broadcasting
Dan Balz , B.A. 1968, M.A. 1972 - Washington Post national political reporter and editor; authorChris Britt - Editorial cartoonist John Chancellor , — Political analyst and newscaster for NBC Nightly News Roger Ebert , B.S. 1964 — Film criticBill Geist , 1968 — CBS News correspondentRobert Goralski , 1949 - NBC News correspondentBob Grant — Radio talk show personality.Herb Keinon - Columnist and journalist for The Jerusalem Post Frederick C Klein , B.A. 1959 — sportswriter Wall Street Journal ' and authorCarol Marin , A.B. 1970 — Former news anchor, 60 Minutes Robert Novak , B.A. 1952 — Political commentator and columnistSuze Orman , B.A. 1973 — Financial adviser and authorIan Punnett , — Radio talk show personality, and Saturday night host of Coast to Coast AM B. Mitchel Reed , B.S., M.A. — Popular radio personality in Los Angeles and New YorkDan Savage , advice columnist (Savage Love ) and theater directorGene Shalit , 1949 — Film criticDouglas Wilson — Television personality/designer
Media
Military
Music Dan Fogelberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Fogelberg
Politics
Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker
John Anderson — Former U.S. Representative and 1980 presidential candidateBerhane Abrehe , M.S. 1972 - Third Minister of Finance of Eritrea Fidel V. Ramos , 1951 — Former President of the Philippines (1992-1998)James Brady , 1962 — White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan , hand gun control advocateNancy Brinker , 1968 — Founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure ; Chief of Protocol of the United States , United States ambassador to Hungary 2001 -09-06 to 2003 -06-19 Henry M. Britt , 1941 and 1947 (Law) - Arkansas Republican pioneer and circuit judge in Hot Springs Edwin V. Champion - a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Rafael Correa , Ph.D. 2001 — President and Former Secretary (Minister) of Finances of Ecuador .Jon Corzine , A.B. 1969 — Governor of New Jersey (2006-present ) and U.S. Senator from New Jersey (2001-2006), cross listed in Business section Dorothy Day , 1918 — founder of the Catholic Worker Movement Alan J. Dixon , B.S. - United States Senator from 1981 until 1993.Atef Ebeid , Ph.D. 1962 — Former prime minister of Egypt (1999-2004)Tom Fink , J.D. 1952 - Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives (1973), Mayor of Anchorage (1987-1994)Chuck Graham , B.S. 1987 - Missouri House of Representatives (1996-2002), Missouri State Senate 2004Jesse Jackson — Civil rights leader, presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition -Expelled before graduation.Jesse Jackson Jr. , J.D. 1993 — U.S. Representative from Illinois (1995-present )Victor Kamber , B.S. 1965 - formed The Kamber Group, working for Democratic Party candidates and labor unionsAnnette Lu , — Former Vice-president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (2000-2008)Lynn Morley Martin , B.A. 1960 — U.S. Representative from Illinois (1981-1991) and Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of George H.W. Bush (1991-1993)Oran McPherson — Former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , and Minister of Public Works for the United Farmers of Alberta government.Maxwell Mkwezalamba - Commissioner for Economic Affairs for the African Union Commission Samuel K. Skinner , 1960 — Secretary of Transportation (1989-1991); White House Chief of Staff during the George H. W. Bush Administration (1992)
Science and mathematics
Murray S. Blum — Entomologist , authority on chemical ecology and pheromones John Carbon , B.S. 1952 - Biochemist , United States National Academy of Sciences memberStephen S. Chang , Ph.D. 1952 - Food scientist, IFT Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor ScienceKarl Clark , Ph.D - discovered the hot water oil separation processCutler J. Cleveland , Ph.D - Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy and the Encyclopedia of Earth .Ronald Cohn , B.S. 1965, M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 — Researcher and cameraman who helped document Koko , the mountain gorillaAlfred Y. Cho , B.S. 1960, M.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1968 — Father of molecular beam epitaxy ; received the National Medal of Science in 1993Gene H. Golub , B.S. 1953, M.A. 1954, Ph.D. 1959 - B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of MathematicalJoseph Leo Doob - mathematicianRichard Hamming , Ph.D. 1942 — mathematician, who developed Hamming code and Hamming distance , winner of 1968 ACM Turing Award . IEEE 's Richard W. Hamming Medal is named after him.Donald G. Higman , Ph.D. 1952 - mathematician, discovered the Higman–Sims group Donald Johanson , B.S. 1966 — Anthropologist, discoverer of oldest known hominid, "Lucy "Michael Lacey , Ph.D. 1987 - Awarded the Salem Prize for solving conjectures about the Bilinear Hilbert TransformFrancine Patterson , B.S. 1970 — Researcher who taught a modified version of American Sign Language to a mountain gorilla named Koko Allan Sandage , B.S., 1948 — Influential astronomer and cosmologist; winner of 1991 Crafoord Prize Charles W. Woodworth , B.S. 1885, M.S. 1886 — Founder of the Division of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley ; the PBESA gives the C. W. Woodworth Award Andrew Chi-Chih Yao , Ph.D. 1975 — computer scientist, winner of 2000 ACM Turing Award David Blackwell , Ph.D. 1941 — Rao–Blackwell theorem . In 1965 he was the first African American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
Sports
Administration
Basketball
Nick Anderson , former National Basketball Association player, Orlando Magic 's career scoring leaderJames Augustine , National Basketball Association player, forward for the Orlando Magic Dee Brown , National Basketball Association player, guard for the Utah Jazz Brian Cook , National Basketball Association player, forward for the Orlando Magic Kendall Gill , former National Basketball Association playerDerek Harper , former National Basketball Association playerLuther Head , National Basketball Association player, guard for the Houston Rockets Roger Powell , National Basketball Association player, currently a free agentDeron Williams , National Basketball Association player, guard for the Utah Jazz Frank Williams , National Basketball Association player, currently a free agent
Baseball
Football
Dick Butkus , National Football League linebacker; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luke Butkus , National Football League coach, Offensive line coach for the Chicago Bears , nephew of Dick ButkusRashard Mendenhall , National Football League running back drafted in 2008 to the Pittsburgh Steelers Danny Clark IV , National Football League player, linebacker for the New Orleans Saints Jameel Cook , National Football League player, fullback for the Houston Texans David Diehl , National Football League player, offensive guard for the New York Giants Moe Gardner , former National Football League player, former defensive line for the Atlanta Falcons Red Grange , charter member of the Pro Football Hall of FameGeorge Halas , former National Football League coach for the Chicago Bears ; charter member of the Pro Football Hall of FameKelvin Hayden , National Football League player, cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts Greg Lewis , National Football League player, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles Brandon Lloyd , National Football League player, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears Aaron Moorehead , National Football League player, wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts Ray Nitschke , National Football League player, former linebacker for the Green Bay Packers Tony Pashos , National Football League player, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens Neil Rackers , National Football League player, kicker for the Arizona Cardinals Simeon Rice , National Football League player, defensive endMarques Sullivan , former National Football League player, offensive line for the New England Patriots Steve Weatherford , National Football League player, punter for the New Orleans Saints Eugene Wilson , National Football League player, defensive back for the New England Patriots Fred Wakefield National Football League player, offensive guard for the Arizona Cardinals Pierre Thomas National Football League player, running back for the New Orleans Saints
Golf
Olympics
Avery Brundage , B.S. 1909; Olympian, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President (1952-1972)Abie Grossfeld , Olympic, Pan Am, and Maccabiah Games gymnast and coachDaniel Kinsey , gold medal in men's 110 m hurdles, 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris Harold Osborn , gold medal in decathlon and high jump, 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris Herb McKenley , silver medal in 400m, 1948 Summer Olympics in London ; silver medal in 100m and 400m, gold medal in 4x400m relay, 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Craig Virgin , 3-time Olympian in men's 10,000 meters, 2-time World Cross Country ChampionMichael Velazquez, bronze medal in men's two man luge, 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . He excelled at both top and bottom, front and behind.
Notable faculty
Presidents
Nobel laureates
John Bardeen , 1951-1991 — Awarded Nobel prizes for Physics in 1953 for co-inventing the transistor and again in 1972 for work on superconductivity (one of the only 4 people in the world to win multiple Nobel Prizes and the only one who won twice in Physics.)Elias James (E.J.) Corey , 1951-59 — Nobel laureate (Chemistry , 1990)Paul Lauterbur , 1985-2007 — Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine , 2003)Anthony J. Leggett , 1983- — Nobel laureate (Physics , 2003)Salvador Luria , 1950-59 — Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine , 1969)Rudolph Marcus , 1964-68 — Nobel laureate (Chemistry , 1992)Franco Modigliani , 1948-1952 — Nobel laureate (Economics , 1985)Leonid Hurwicz , 1950-1951, 2001 — Nobel laureate (Economics , 2007)
Pulitzer Prize winners
Other
Jean Bourgain , Faculty — Fields Medal in Mathematics of International Mathematical Union , 1994Ira Carmen , 1968-present — First political scientist elected to the Human Genome Organization and co-founder of the social science subdiscipline of genetics and politics.Arthur Byron Coble — Professor of mathematics (1918-47)Ron Dewar - Music educator, noted jazz saxophonist, leader of influential Memphis Nighthawks David Gottlieb , 1946-1982 - discovered chloramphenicol, Guggenheim Fellow, Biology-Plant Science, 1963;David Grove , b.1935 - Professor (now Emeritus) of Anthropology (since 1970); Mesoamericanist scholar and archaeologistNick Holonyak Jr. — Lemelson-MIT Prize (2004), National Medal of Technology (2002), National Medal of Science (1990); credited for the invention of the LED and the first semiconductor laser to operate in the visible spectrumFrancis Wheeler Loomis , Head of Physics Department 1929-57 - former Guggenheim Fellow that established schools Physics Department.Abram L. Sachar , 1923-1948 — Founding President of Brandeis University Fred W. Tanner , 1923-56 - Food microbiologist, charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists , and founder of scientific journal Food Research Journal of Food Science Brian Wansink , 1997-2005 — Julian Simon professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think Carl Woese — Crafoord Prize recipient (Bioscience, 2003); professor of microbiology, foreign member of the Royal Society Stephen Wolfram — adjunct professor of physics, co-founder of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica Wallace Hume Carothers - organic chemist, inventor of nylon and first synthetic rubber (Neoprene)
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